Good Health and Stanford authors: Evolutionary Pressures on the Electronic Health Record - "Deimplementing the EHR could actively enhance care in many clinical scenarios". Elvonda

A brief post.  In this new JAMA article by Stanford authors: Evolutionary Pressures on the Electronic Health Record http://jama.jamanetwork....

Good Health and Ioannidis et al.: What Happens When Underperforming Big Ideas in Research [such as Healthcare IT Exceptionalism] Become Entrenched?. Elvonda

Some years ago, John P. A. Ioannidis, MD wrote this piece: " Why Most Published Research Findings Are False ", John P. A. Ioannidi...

Good Health and President Obama Writes About Health Care Reform in JAMA. Elvonda

All aboard! In a first for the Journal of the American Medical Association (" JAMA "), President Obama has authored a Special Com...

Good Health and JAMA LAYS AN EGG. Elvonda

JAMA LAYS AN EGG  Three months ago I took JAMA to task over a Viewpoint opinion piece about conflict of interest. The authors proposed danc...

Good Health and JAMA JUMPS THE SHARK. Elvonda

JAMA JUMPS THE SHARK Medical journals are supposed to promote professional values � scientific, social, and ethical. Quality matters, in eac...

Good Health and 2016 is the Breakout Year for mHealth: Savings vs. Value. Elvonda

In this post, the Population Health Blog predicts how and why mHealth will be covered by more commercial health insurers in 2016, and why th...

Good Health and The Limits of Financial Incentives for Docs. Elvonda

"It is written: Man shall not live by bread alone." Luke 4:4 No matter what you think of the source of that quote, the idea that t...

Good Health and "Fusing" Randomized Clinical Trials and Big Data: Another Value Proposition for Population Health?. Elvonda

Randomized controlled trials are the crown jewel of clinical research.  By allocating patients to one of two or more treatment protocols (o...